Identified! FL - Big Cypress Natl Preserve, Male Hiker, Denim & “Mostly Harmless” July 2018 - Vance Rodriguez

[eucalyptuz]

I'm just going to throw this out there, I've been trying to think why his actual photos seemed familiar to me, and I think he reminds me of this missing boy. Would be the right age, he looks very much like him, and would explain the hiker's strange and disjointed history. Too bad there is not an age progression of the boy to compare.
Lloyd Michael Reese:
GINA For Missing Persons - Lloyd Michael Reese

There is something in the eyes that is very similar. I can't find any other photos of Lloyd so it's hard to make a good comparison but Lloyd does seem to have a very prominent mole on one cheek, so it should be an easy one for LE to rule in on...

ETA: Lloyd Michael Reese - Utah Missing Person Directory
With these other details, including eye color, from the missing persons poster it does not seem to be our guy (...even though in the high def photo his eyes appear blue-ish...old photos are notoriously unreliable for preserving color...)

Hair: Brown
Head Hair: Dark brown hair with auburn highlights.
Eye: Brown
Scars And Marks: Scar on upper right arm, Mole on right cheek.
Artificial Body Parts: Braces on top and bottom teeth.

 

[eucalyptuz]

There is something in the eyes that is very similar. I can't find any other photos of Lloyd so it's hard to make a good comparison but Lloyd does seem to have a very prominent mole on one cheek, so it should be an easy one for LE to rule in on...

ETA: Lloyd Michael Reese - Utah Missing Person Directory
With these other details, including eye color, from the missing persons poster it does not seem to be our guy (...even though in the high def photo his eyes appear blue-ish...old photos are notoriously unreliable for preserving color...)

mmmh...weird...the charley project lists his eye color as green...
Lloyd Michael Reese – The Charley Project

 

[Gardener1850]

mmmh...weird...the charley project lists his eye color as green...
Lloyd Michael Reese – The Charley Project

That says he disappeared with a friend in a car? Seems likely they went into some water somewhere and have not been found. JMO.

 

[EllieGato]

Thanks, Inmyhumbleopinion! I appreciate you checking out those Bellamy profiles and finding some more recent activity.

I'm moving on from Bellamy.

I really think the Ben Bilemy name is a derivative of the Doe's actual name.

My next train of thought:
My married last name was 12 letters and a German name ending in ...bacher. I would often use a signature that ended with the B, and drop the 'acher' and also alternatively drop the 'er' at the end and let the name end at '...bach'. In doing so I learned that I wasn't the only one to drop the 'er' in a signature. It is actually common.

Since it is a handwritten signature, I question the correct spelling here. The E in Bilemy... is it possibly the E is another L in cursive style writing.

Combine the idea of dropping the 'er' with the thought that the E in Bilemy might be an L....

You get Billmyer

 

[EllieGato]

Shout out for help here... first names for people you have heard or known to be called Ben

Benjamin
Benedict
Benson
Bentley
Benton
Bennet(t)
Benji(e)

Anyone?

 

[dotr]

Shout out for help here... first names for people you have heard or known to be called Ben

Benjamin
Benedict
Benson
Bentley
Benton
Bennet(t)
Benji(e)

Anyone?

Ben- Boy Names Starting with "Ben"
"Summary Index of names [and variants] for Ben- names for boys.

1. Ben - Benzion
Ben▼ [Benn, Benny▼, Benne, Benjy, Benji, Bennie▼], Benedict [Bent, Bennt, Benoit, Bennie▼, Bennet, Bennito, Bennett▲, Bennedikt, ..], Benigno, Benjamin▲ [Benn, Benny▼, Benno, Benjy, Bennie▼, Benyamin, Benjimen, Benyamino, ..], Benjiro, Bennett▲ [Benet, Benoit, Bennet, Benett], Benoni, Benson▲ [Bensen, Bensson, Benssen], Bentley▲ [Ben▼, Bently▼, Bentlie, Bentlee, Bentlea], Benton▲, Benvenuto, Bienvenido [Benvenuto], Benzion

Read more at Ben- Boy Names Starting with "Ben"

 

[Bit of hope]

Some Hebrew names: Benaiah, Benaya, Benayu.

 

[carbuff]

I knew a Ben who was really a Paul. No idea how he got the nickname but it wasn't part of any of his legal names.

 

[LeenC]

I wouldn’t focus too much on the name. He may just have used “Ben” as a name because it was the first thing that popped in his head. It could be that the name is a connection to his past, but it might as well be the name of a character in his favorite book, so to speak. But then again, don’t let me keep you from your sleuthing if you feel you’re on to something! I’m really glad so many people try so many different things to give this man his name back.

I know it’s too soon to think or suggest things like this, but he would make a great candidate for the DNA Doe Project.

When I have some more free time again, I’ll try and look into graduation photos. I do believe he is from the area he said he was and still think he might pop up on graduation pictures of a college or university.

 

[moonriverfarm]

Hard to believe nobody is missing him, but if be started his walkabout a year ago, maybe family isn't even aware he is dead. Maybe they expect not to hear from him. Maybe they aren't active social media people. You can't miss what you aren't looking for.

 

[Ursamajr]

I think about Mostly Harmless every single day and I want to believe someone else is missing him. As the days and months go by, the more I think that he wanted to fade into the sunset on his own and he cut ties in ways that people would not go looking for him. There is something about that that I respect. However, if someone is missing him, I really do hope that LE/the public can connect him.

 

[Laughing]

Shout out for help here... first names for people you have heard or known to be called Ben

Benjamin
Benedict
Benson
Bentley
Benton
Bennet(t)
Benji(e)

Anyone?

Biblically, Abendigo (sisn't check the spelling/transliteration into English) but he is one of the 3 in the Fiery Furnace.

Could be a nickname derived from a surname, placename, lots of options....

 

[EllieGato]

Bradley P Olsen?
The Charley Project
Missing since 2007

 

[Bit of hope]

Bradley P Olsen?
The Charley Project
Missing since 2007

Impossible...sorry....a lot of tattoos..

 

[carbuff]

Belemy is a common misspelling of Bellamy. I even found a reference to music by The Belemy Brothers

 

[Gardener1850]

Maybe he had three children with the nicknames Ben, Bil and Emy?

IDK. I tend to think the alias was not close to his real name, but it just occurred to me that if he spelled it the same way at several locations, perhaps it was a mnemonic device to help him remember something or someone.

 

[carbuff]

Maybe he had three children with the nicknames Ben, Bil and Emy?

IDK. I tend to think the alias was not close to his real name, but it just occurred to me that if he spelled it the same way at several locations, perhaps it was a mnemonic device to help him remember something or someone.

Good thought. Or the reverse, based on something he was familiar with so he'd remember it.

 

[dotr]

Maybe he had three children with the nicknames Ben, Bil and Emy?

IDK. I tend to think the alias was not close to his real name, but it just occurred to me that if he spelled it the same way at several locations, perhaps it was a mnemonic device to help him remember something or someone.

Maybe he had 3 kids with names such as Bob, Evan and Nora,
or, best guess- his own initials spelled Ben, ie Brent Edward Newman?
Also..
Many mountains/hills named Ben in Scotland..
Quickfire Scottish: a guide to the mystery of Highland mountain names by Dan Aspel
"Beinn / Ben: Simply the most common gaelic word for “hill”. It therefore appears more than a thousand times across OS maps of Scotland (and features in the names of 30 of Scotland’s highest 100 peaks!)."

 

[RickshawFan]

Remember as a response to the idea that the UID could be a foreigner, I said upthread that Americans look different from Europeans? The pickpockets in Paris rely on that fact: they can tell an American tourist a block away.

Here's a less vague description than mine about differences. Yup... "The Agency" has this figured out. Enjoy!

"Former CIA Chief explains how spies use disguises"

 

[moonriverfarm]

I seriously doubt he was in disguise, as many people have photos of him, even videos, and he looks the same in all - and in the police sketch.